Paramedia didn’t take a break after the election of Donald Trump. Here are the craziest fake news stories that people actually believed this week. Tell us you didn’t partake …

This is part five of our paramedia series, our ongoing investigation into a fake news invasion that continues to tricks millions. Read the whole series here. -Ed.

aNewDomain — Fake news purveyors at Alt-Right paramedia sites didn’t take a breather after the election of Donald Trump last week.

They’re all still out in full force.

And the masses on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram are still sharing and retweeting this editorial garbage like crazy.

Are you guilty?

If so, stop it. Check the dates and sources on the stories you see, and definitely run their images through a Google image search.Here is just a sampling of some of the fake news stories that dominated Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and various other social networks in the days since the Nov. 8, 2016 presidential election.

FAKE: Anti-Trump Protesters Block Ambulance, Father of Four-Year Old Dies

This story, which originated in an anonymous Facebook posting by someone who posed as the fictional wife of a made-up victim, was shared well over 100,000 times on that network. The conspiracy theory site Infowars ran a version of it, too, and SharedCount shows it’s already 65,594 plus reshares,

The original poster wrote:

“I have to unfacebook for a few days. I had a patient die during a transfer last night because our ambulance was stopped by protesters and had to drive an extra 45 minutes around the blocked roads,” said the anonymous post. “I can’t today. They can give their f**king safety pins to my patient’s fatherless 4 year old daughter.”(sic)

More evidence that too many people who share fake news don’t bother to read it: Even InfoWars, in its piece, wrote that the story was unconfirmed.

FAKE: BLM Thug Protests President Trump With Selfie … Accidentally Shoots Himself In The Face

This fake news story appears to have originated in the Observatorial, a notorious click-bait site, on Nov. 11.

It was widely shared on Twitter, Facebook and a wide variety of alt-right paramedia sites.

But the fake news really got rolling after Alex Jones’ conspiracy theory site Infowars reposted the piece. In three days, there were 69,350 shares on Facebook and hundreds of comments protesting an event that never happened, and that’s not counting the countless reshares on Facebook by members duped by the piece.

The image of the man shown in the fake news blitz around this story that depicted a man holding a gun to his face in a selfie is old, too.

Says Snopes:

“The image appears to have first surfaced on Reddit on 21 December 2012. It is unclear who is depicted in the photograph or what his fate was, but the picture has since become part of an anthology of “selfie fails,” an Internet phenomenon of poking fun at people doing unwise things while taking pictures of themselves. In 2014, BuzzFeed included the picture in a series of 27 photographs of people doing things such as lighting the fumes from an aerosol spray can on fire or pouring chocolate syrup on themselves.”

Another note: The Infowars version of the piece says the accidental suicide happened in Skagit County. It’s true that a 43-year-old man accidentally did kill himself with a gun in a selfie, thinking the gun was unloaded.

But that sad event had nothing to do with politics and didn’t have anything to do with the man in the photo tens of thousands of people have been sharing over the last few days.

FAKE: Breaking! George Soros Is Dead of a Heart Attack

And, contrary to scores and scores of shares on the social nets this week, the billionaire philanthropist George Soros is alive and well.

According to reports that originated at two Croatian-run fake news sites, “Soros was pronounced dead … following what some are describing as a violent heart attack. The world famous businessman was previously treated for minor cardio vascular issues that followed a mild course of antibiotics.”

FAKE: Putin Officially Declared: George Soros Wanted Dead or Alive!

The “Soros is dead” bogus news was just one of several fake news stories around Soros this week.

One claimed that photos reveal his Witchcraft practice. Another claimed he is facing a $550 million lawsuit to incite Black Lives Matters protesters to incite post-election violence. Those should have been blatantly obvious fake news headlines, but lots of people fell for it, a search on Twitter and Facebook reveals.

But this Soros story, alleging that Russian president Vladimir Putin has issued a “dead or alive” international arrest warrant for the billionaire, is the one that caught fire, leading to a half million likes, shares and retweets on the social nets.

The story, as it originated on the click-bait site Global Media, claimed the Kremlin has labeled Soros as “a “threat to Russian national security.” It added that “Putin banned Soros from Russia last year due to the fact that Soros helped to nearly destroy the Russian economy in the early 1990s.”

Fake and fake.

First note that, on Interpol’s list of people wanted by Russia for international arrest and extradition, Soros makes no appearance.

The Russian government did ban Soros’ charities, the Open Society Foundations (OSF) and the Open Society Institute, claiming they constituted a security risk, points out Snopes.

But Soros himself is neither banned in Russia nor wanted “dead or alive.”

A few days ago, a Twitter account belonging to belong to someone who claimed to be an Anonymous allied hacker surfaced. It had one line:

Hi Bill Clinton Love, #Anonymous

The tweet bore one picture of man, who does look a lot like former US Pres. Bill Clinton, naked on a bed as an unidentified blonde woman massages him.

But just a quick image search would’ve revealed to anyone who cares that the image is a fake.

Turns out it was shot by a photographer, Alison Jackson, who specializes in celeb look-alike work. Here’s the original.

In its thorough debunking, Snopes points out that Jackson’s website featuring the following commentary.

“Alison Jackson is renown for her explorations into how photography and the cult of the celebrity have transformed our relationship to what is ‘real’. Her notorious photographic portraits, life-like sculptures, films and videos are startlingly realistically staged affairs that cast uncannily styled actors into an entirely fathomable projection of a future that could have been; or the intimate, often salacious, imagined private moments of media icons such as Diana Princess of Wales, the Queen of England, Marilyn Monroe, George Bush, Brad and Angelina, and David Beckham. Jackson’s productions stress-test the implicit belief that a photograph can capture a frozen moment of ‘truth.’”

The artist’s site also shows a photograph of “Princess Diana” flipping someone off and a partially nude “Kate Middleton, says Snopes.

If you shared this post from The Political Insider, and more than a 100,000 Americans did on Facebook, you were taken for a fool.

Editor’s note: This post is part five of our continuing investigative series, which looks into paramedia and the fake news it purveys to get clicks, cash and mindshare. Here’s the series so far, in order of appearance:

1 Comment

These stories might be a mixed bag, some false and some true. The story about the ambulance being stopped by protesters who block traffic, resulting in a sick or injured person dying before they could reach the hospital emergency room, is PLAUSIBLE, meaning that this is something that will happen, sooner or later, whether this particular story is true or false.

Likewise, the story about millions of illegal aliens giving Hillary Clinton the appearance of winning the popular vote in the recent presidential election is PLAUSIBLE. Those illegal aliens have ways of registering to vote (e.g. Obamacare, DMV, when applying for welfare) that rely entirely on self-attestation for the veracity of the information supplied, and many states don’t have voter ID requirements. Furthermore, the illegal aliens have a strong motivation to influence US elections, so that the elected officials will enact policies that favor them. Given the combination of motive and opportunity, the question isn’t WHETHER illegal aliens voted, but HOW MANY did.

All the lefties can validly do to gainsay these claims is to say that they are “unproven,” as Snopes, for example, actually does. Unproven — but very plausible.